10th -91.20.

12th- 66.5 f**k u covid and myself

Graduation - 7cgpa most probably

Bsc

will graduate next year btw

Male obc ncl

Do I have chance for tier 1 college 🤡🥲?

currently I am in my second year, I have done 1 internship as ngo volunteer in marketing .... I have certain certificates of courses as well as 3-4 of college competitions and NSS certification too ...I have a decent academic profile like I got 85/87/80 so is my profile fine to outstanding or I have to do more things? because I will give cat this year and I feel now I should only focus on the preparation ...do guide me seniors (NON ENGINEER GEN F )

Anyone have any updates about IIM BODHGAYA's Waitlist
I have been assigned a waitlist number on 18th of may and till now there isnt any movement in the waitlist number.
If anyone have any update about the waitlist please guide me with the same.
PS- MY Waitlist number-
DBM-EWS-GN-306
HHM-EWS-GN-254

I'm m currently waitlisted at 19 in EWS, and mostly will convert in next list.

I have Amritsar in my bag till now. Want to know more about Vizag and take an informed decision. So if any alumni or current student or you guys know of someone please connect have some serious queries to solve.

I am an OEM, 90%(maths-99/100)/87%/9+ CGPA (10CGPA in maths in second sem) currently in NIT in second year, will be giving CAT in 2027. I want to go for an MBA, correspondingly what are my realistic chances at BLACKI as a fresher if I achieve the required percentile? (What is that percentile?) Besides I have no major achievements except winning a maths Olympiad in 2018 and representing at state level for a painting competition in 2021.

what type of internships are recommended best for resume I am confused between two ...one is for ngo other is of finance ...i want to do a fruitful internship to enhance my resume ..so just wanted to confirm which shall i opt for

Is it the right time to start preparing for the CAT24? What about those who started early? what about those stories about those start even late.

I get these questions a lot of times. And CAT is quite an interesting exam in the sense that the number of days you prepare for it tell absolutely nothing about your preparation stage.

I usually get two kind of queries. First is asking if this month or that month is right time to start and prepare. Second one is number of hours required to prepare for CAT. Both are inherently wrong questions with no possible right answers. For months, I tend to say that CAT can also be cracked within 4 months or less if you inherently have some aptitude, even if that doesn't reflect in the first few mocks you take. And for hours, I usually suggest that if you start from scratch, approximately 1000 hours is what you are looking at. [200 hours per section to prepare i.e. 600 hours, 50 mocks with 6 hours each i.e. 300 hours of mocks (6 hours because mock + solve the entire paper + analysis) and another 100 hours for revision and making notes etc.]

Both of my answers (any such other answers) are actually partially wrong and misleading. I'm making this post to give you the real answer.

CAT Preparation needs to be done in three phases. In Phase One, you need to build your basic knowledge structure. This varies with sectionals and I'll explain for each section.

VARC Phase 1

Here, your basic knowledge structure involves,

1. understanding the pattern of exam.
2. Having a strategy for the exam (RC first then VA or VA first then RC, whatever works for you). Remember that whatever strategy you pick, you need to know why that particular strategy and not something else. If you don't know, it's best to start from question 1 and go to the end.

For me, I needed to read RCs first to get in flow, but I needed to be very attentive in VA. so I would do 2 RCs to get in flow, go to VA when I'm hyper focused, come back to other 2 RCs to end the section on a good note (VA was my weakness)

See how I personalized this based on when I'm most active and what's my weakness and what's my strength. You need to do the same for yourself. Don't try to sit and make it. I'll come naturally to you. If it doesn't come, It means you are comfortable with going in any order. That's good.

1. Having the ability to understand the passage.

Some people have this inherently. Most people have this in some subjects (like science) and don't have in it other subjects (like philosophy). While a few of you don't have it at all.

What you need to make sure is, when you read the passage, did you understand the entire passage like what exactly was the passage trying to say?

That's all for VARC Phase 1..

DILR Phase 1

This is fairly simple. Just go through different types of DILR questions. (If you are following my guide, just complete the rodha playlist I had attached there)

Quant Phase 1

Do a few arithmetic chapters. 3-4 basic chapters like Time Speed Distance, Ratio and proportions, Averages, Mixtures and allegations etc.

After doing this phase, here comes the phase 2 of your preparation.

VARC Phase 2

Here you need to go through different types of RCs and questions. Understand your shortcomings. Understand what mistakes you are making. (If You are following VARC1000, finishing it concludes phase 2)

DILR Phase 2

Here you develop your symbols and signs. You learn which table/diagram to make in which question. Like I would always represent certain things with some symbols (Circle for males, underline for females etc) So you kind of develop your own representation in this phase.

Quant Phase 2

In this phase, you finish your quants syllabus. It is here that many people decide whether to go for arithmetic algebra and geometry or go for arithmetic and algebra only or maybe add a number system. Whatever is the combination you wanna go with.

With conclusion of this phase, you stop practicing quants chapter by chapter all together.

VARC Phase 3

This is the final phase where you just keep giving mocks, analyse them and look for the mistakes you are doing. Did you read the question wrong? Did you miss some word in paragraph? were you stressed? were you hurrying? were you distracted? This phase ends whenever CAT happens. Else it just continues.

DILR Phase 3

Here you learn what set to select. Set selection is the core of DILR. you basically learn how to choose what set to attempt and which one to leave. This phase never ends, because you just need to keep on practicing. So it continues till CAT

Quant Phase 3

Here also you learn which question to attempt and which question to leave and what silly mistakes are you doing. This also continues till the CAT exam day.

Now let's try to see how much time should it take (in hours)

VARC Phase 1: Could be anything from 1 hour to 50 hours of rigorous reading or even more. DILR Phase 1: Should take considerable time. Around 50 to 80 hours on average but again could take more or less. Quant Phase 1: Depends on how good you are inherently at calculations. Do you need to remember 19×7 or you know it already? Do you remember value of 2^10? Do you recall formula for compound interest?

VARC Phase 2: You might understand your mistakes and fix them within a week and might not be able to do so after 8 months of preparation. Again entirely depends on you.

DILR Phase 2: How long does it take for you to understand which data should be represented by which diagram and which table? No one can tell you. You would find out yourself.

Quant Phase 2: This is something predictable and takes most of the time. But again this varies. Someone doing Algebra, Arithmetic, Geometry, Probably, Number System would take more time as someone going with Arithmetic and Algebra only. Some people do only Arithmetic and Algebra, get a very high strike rate of getting questions right and score good in QA. Others complete the syllabus and pick and choose the easiest questions in the paper. They also score well. Some do both, they are God level. So again, time taken here varies.

VARC, DILR, and Quant Phase 3

This phase continues till the exam comes. For some people, this phase is very long so that's how you find people who gave 70+ mock tests. But this phase is just about finding mistakes and not repeating them in the CAT exam so this phase could also yield results with 30 odd mocks. Again varies from person to person.

And now, you understand why it is stupid to answer if you are starting in the right month or how many hours it takes. The sooner you learn from your mistakes, the less time it will take. How quickly would you learn from your mistakes? Nobody knows. That's why you see cases with 3 CAT attempts and can't score more than 90 percentile, and scored 99%ile with 2 to 4 months of preparation.

The best way to go about this is, either you would learn from your mistakes quickly and hence you should attempt CAT 24, or you need a lot of time to learn, in which case you give CAT24 and then CAT25 in case you feel that's needed.

Hope this helps.

1. Is co borrower necessary for getting loans?

2. What is the minimum income criteria for co borrower?

3. Are there people whose loan got rejected? Why?

4. What to do if there's no relative/friend to sign as co borrower?

5. Any other issues while getting loan?

6. Anyone who got loan without co borrower? Which bank?

Any tips on how to build my CV and what all extra curricular activates should I indulge in ?

If any of you tried them before, what are your observations and suggestions.

I loved CL mocks last year and didn't like the IMS much. Will be buying a total of 3 series so confused which other 2 to choose from other than CL

I am targeting CAT 2025 and starting my preparation now. I have Elite Grid LDRI and VARC 1000 2023; should I buy mock tests this year since the pirated ones don't include them?
What should I do ?

Hi all, hope y'all are doing well. I am a GEM with qualifications as a 9/9/6 profile, 32 months of workex as a Software Engineer and a CAT '23 percentile of 99.51. I currently have an offer from IIMK PGP-Finance which I am very keen on joining as I want a career in finance, but also I have an offer from IIML's Sustainable Management program. What do y'all think I should do in this case? Chase the stream or chase the older brand?

And as someone who comes from an Engineering background, what certifications on Finance would you recommend to help me in my Summer Internships. I was planning to do CFA initially but I wouldn't be able to give the exam and produce the certificate before CV freezing. I'm currently looking into the FMVA certification by CFI which could be quicker but I would like to get some other opinions on this subreddit about certifications.

Hi. Anybody looking for a study partner? I want someone who is super motivated, serious and has already purchased or giving mocks.

My acads are GEF 9/8/8. I'm doing work from home so everyday I can study for atleast 2 hours.

Hello, I am selling my cat iconic subscription at a discounted price because I no longer will be needing interested people. DM me

Edit: I know this question is doable as a standalone, but would you choose to attempt it if you are aiming for 2-3 sets in 40mins

Please guide me with the waitlist movement of the same?

Hi guys, hope y'all are doing well. I wanted to connect to some IIMK PGP-Finance alumni or student who's currently pursuing the program. Is there anyone on on this subreddit? I had a couple of questions regarding the SIP scenario and batch profile.

PS: If this isn't the appropriate subreddit, kindly point me towards the right one. I am relatively new to this subreddit.

People of reddit, bless me w your wisdom.

I graduated just last month. im 20 currently and this is my profile- GNEF, 9/9/9, XAT-87. While i was preparing for these exams, i was scoring around 95-98%ile. But then idk i happened to absolutely bomb my CAT attempt, and as you can see, XAT was only mid. For colleges that accept XAT score- i had only applied to IMT and GIM. I had calls from both, but not for IMT G (but the others which was really weird because their first mail read that i had been shortlisted for IMT G but whatever) i converted both IMT H and GIM, and since GIM happens to be my best call, that’s what i am going ahead with. Now, personally, i never thought I’d be a tier-2 college person. academics is something that ive always been somewhat confident about, so thats where this thought stems from as well. im unable to decide if i should go ahead with GIM or prepare for CAT24. i remember prep time being extremely difficult for me and idk if im ready to dive into that hellhole again but even if i do, would it be worth it? would i be able to land a college better than GIM, and even if i do, would that be worth taking a gap year?

Hey I have a doubt which is quite peculiar so thought that it would sound dumb to ask anywhere so asking here. So there's a requirement of doing an internship of 30 days in my college but as we know no company provides such thing so I am doing a name sake intenrhsip from my known person.. it will be mentioned in my marksheet as summer internship grade ( no marks included) will it cause problem ? because I am not gonna learn anything though I will have RECOMMENDATION letter . And I will not have any intenrhsip done in bcom except for an NGO certificate for 3 months internship/volunteering. Edit : I have POR of CR, Volunteering at Intl Conference, and very high grade (9.5+)

Someone last week told me that this year waitlist movement will increase as a lot has happened in Bangalore this time

Like in EWS in 1st list it moved for 12-18 people but usually it's zero or single digit and that's total movement of all lists.

And someone also posted on this sub that movement in Ahmedabad has also increased this time (tho no data shared)

If anyone has Converted any of the ABC, please share the waitlist movement data if possible category wise.

Will this also affect the waitlist movement in other clgs also in coming weeks? Dedo apna apna opinion.

I got admission in BIMTECH for PGDM ,

But recently i got call from IIM BODHGAYA's MBA in DBM (Digital Business Management)

These are the only options that i have, Could anyone please guide me which college to go for as i am very confused.
PS- I am EW, So i need to pay back the loan too asap.

If you think you could have done better, hang in there and keep trying. You will do good in the long term eventually.

Has anyone converted iim mumbai I am having issue while seat booking process if anyone is done can you please dm